really very ot, but the record surely belongs to 78s?
umashankar
--- Rich Peet <> wrote:
> --- In "Scott"
> <> wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > Six great focusing questions! [What do you like to
> record? How would
> > you like to record (micing style)? What future
> goals do you have for
> > your recordings? What kind of monitoring do you
> use or have access
> > to? What is your budget for mics, recorder and
> sealed cup
> > headphones. What computer platform are you on?]
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> > In essence what these questions provide is the
> realization of how
> > woefully unprepared that I am. With your guidance
> I now have an
> > inkling of where I must turn my attention.
> >
> > Of your six questions I can only answer three at
> this time:
> >
> > (1)What do you like to record? -------- Bio and
> Eco sonics. I'm
> > entraced by soundscape activities as in R. Murray
> Schafer and the
> > ecoacoustic movement.
> >
> > (2) What future goals do you have for your
> recordings? ---------
> > Relative to Question and Answer # 1, I'd like to
> become seriously
> > involved in documenting what I consider the
> deterioration of our
> > sonic enviroment. Yeah, I'm a bit of an
> environmental activist but
> > don't become duly concerned since I have no
> intention of pushing my
> > agenda at this Yahoo Group. There's another one
> for that purpose and
> > I know exactly where it is.
>
> That's great. A closet environmentalist is more
> effective than being
> overly outspoken and stuck with the burden of it
> being part of a
> religion.
>
> >
> > (3) What computer platform are you on?
> ------------------
> > Unfortunagely my six year old desktop with Windows
> 98SE just
> > won't "cut it" for the speed and memory that I'll
> need for some heavy
> > duty audio software so by the point I purchase a
> minidisc and mics
> > I'll be on some kind of a laptop replacement
> computer with Windows XP.
> >
> > What I'm really wondering at this point, Rob, is
> the future of
> > minidisc recorders. Will they, their replacement
> parts, and anything
> > else required by them be around for another eight
> to ten years? Or
> > are we so very close to economical, yet fairly
> decent solid state
> > digital recorders that minidic recorders already a
> relic of the past?
> >
> > Thanks for getting me started with your questions.
> >
>
> Consumer minidiscs have never really been
> repairable. I have repaired
> a couple mic plug to pc board breaks and ran the
> self diagnostics as
> seen in the repair manuals posted for free. Other
> than that it is a
> work or toss item due to the difficulty in repairing
> surface mount
> miniture machines. I am sure that HHB and Marantz
> will support their
> more expensive minidiscs for some years as both of
> those companies
> have a fine track record in repair support.
>
> In thinking back, CD's are approaching a record in
> popular long life
> use. Wire, 45's, LP's, and Cassettes never really
> lasted that long in
> popularity.
> Reel to reel tapes probably hold the record but am
> not even sure of that.
>
> Because sonic environments are so much richer in the
> spring I will put
> myself on hold for hardware updates until after the
> Xmas rush is over
> and the Feb discounts are seen.
>
> Rich
>
> > Scott
>
>
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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